@hife and @Mary Sherman (spot9019): You both indicate that the latest pulse-testing ppa fixes the problem for you.
Can you both indicate whether you are running Unity as the desktop or KDE or perhaps some other? I still have suspicions that there may be a permissions issue that is specific to Unity (which is the desktop I use and for which the fix does NOT work, at least for me). Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to bluez in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582213 Title: [xenial] Bluetooth device doesn't play any sound in A2DP mode unless set to HSP/HFP first Status in bluez package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in pulseaudio package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in pulseaudio source package in Xenial: In Progress Bug description: [Impact] Bluetooth device doesn't play any sound in A2DP mode unless set to HSP/HFP first. A2DP is the high quality profile used for Bluetooth speakers and music in general. [Test Case] 1. Pair a Bluetooth audio device with Ubuntu. 2. Verify in Sound settings you have it set to A2DP mode. 3. Turn off and then on the Bluetooth device. 4. Verify the device has reconnected and if not, force it to in the Bluetooth indicator menu. 5. Open Sound settings again, select the device and verify it's reappeared in A2DP mode. 6. Click 'Test Sound'. Expected: Sound can be heard from the Bluetooth device. [Regression Potential] Low. The SRU focuses on Bluetooth logic in pulseaudio, so that is the main area affected. A combination of related A2DP bugs in pulseaudio in xenial means it is difficult to get working at all without this patch. So highly unlikely Bluetooth audio support could get worse. Since pulseaudio itself is being modified there is always a regression potential in support for other audio devices, but several audio devices have been tested and all continue to work well with the patch. [Other notes] Related to bug 1283003 and bug 1438510. Possibly others too. Please note that Bluetooth and Bluetooth audio support in xenial is still not perfect. This SRU only aims to address a few of the most troublesome issues. Please consider the fact that this is an incremental improvement and some people are still likely to experience some bugs related to pulseaudio and Bluetooth, even after this SRU. The patch was authored by Luke Yelavich with help from Konrad Zapałowicz. And it has received further testing over the past two months by Konrad, Jim Hodapp and Daniel van Vugt. The debdiff proposed here only changes the changelog wording from Luke's original PPA. [Original Description] I have a Sennheiser MM 450-X headset. In 15.10, connection & playback was straightforward. In 16.04, the headset connects, and shows up as default playback device on `pavucontrol`, but there is no sound. A functional workaround is to, after having connected it, to go the `Configuration` tab, and in the `Profile` dropdown, to choose `... HSP/HFP`, which will make them play as expected (but in low quality), then switch to `... A2DP Sink` (they will play in high quality). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:8.0-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.39-generic 4.4.8 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC1: myuser 2936 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC2: myuser 2936 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: myuser 2936 F.... pulseaudio Date: Mon May 16 14:18:58 2016 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-11 (66 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160224) PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. SourcePackage: pulseaudio UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 04/22/2015 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: F5 dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.board.name: F2A88XN-WIFI dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.board.version: x.x dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrF5:bd04/22/2015:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:pvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnF2A88XN-WIFI:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.name: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.product.version: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 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